Letters To The Editor

— Abhishek Law Kolkata

Votaries of dynasty

• Sonia Gandhi’s mother-in-law had to pay a heavy price for the doings of her sycophantic ‘courtiers’ and history will certainly repeat if she does not put an end to the now-familiar nauseating roadshow by breast-beaters on 10 Janpath put up as if on the order of dynasty worshippers.

— Inder Nath New Delhi

Sauce for boss

• Your editorial, ‘Democracy adjourned’ (IE, March 23), touches the heart of the matter when it says that ‘The Congress’s delight in Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan’s discomfiture, soon returned to haunt it’. Apparently, for the Congress Party Managers, the sauce administered to Jaya Bachchan cannot be administered to their own boss. While Jawaharlal Nehru toiled hard to strengthen parliamentary democracy in the country from its roots, his daughter dealt it a body blow and now his granddaughter-in-law is playing with democracy while settling scores with those whom she cannot see eye to eye.

— M.K.D. Prasada Rao Ghaziabad

Point missed

• By giving up her positions both in ANC and Parliament, Sonia Gandhi has silenced her critics and galvanised her partymen in one obvious respect —greater adulation. While her critics see it as an act of desperation, the fact remains that she has not waited to be thrown out nor relied on retrospective legislation to save herself. Sonia Gandhi has matured from the shy daughter-in-law into a shrewd politician. The unfortunate part of the whole drama is that the offices of profit remain unclear in detail and legislators are reluctant to follow the spirit behind the law.

— J.M. Manchanda New Delhi

Soap script

• History repeats itself. Only one did not expect that it would do so quickly. Hark back 37 years to 1969: the famous split in the Congress, the resignations and the nomination of a presidential candidate, V.V. Giri, against the party’s official nominee, N.S. Reddy. The seeds of the Emergency were thus sown. Now, why did Sonia Gandhi resign? Let’s try an answer this way: borrow and twist a soap opera title a bit and you get ‘Kyunki bahu bhi ab saas ban gayi’.

— T.R. Ramaswami Mumbai

Thinker player

• Kudos to Sonia Gandhi for her second sixer. She has once again proved that she is the real master blaster, who can easily play the BJP-led NDA’s Sonia-phobia bouncer to a sixer to win the public heart. People like her set examples for the coming generation of what positive thinking can do to a person.

— Bidyut K. Chatterjee Faridabad